On a new Genus of Lamellicorn Beetles. 431 



Skull and teeth as described above. . 



Dimensions of the type : — 



Head and body 320 nnn. ; tail 130 ; bind foot 65 ; 

 ear 25. 



Skull : o-reatest lengtli 84'5; condylo-basal lengtli 81 ; 

 zygomatic breadth 27; nasals, length 37, breadth at middle 3'4, 

 breadth behind 5 ; breadth of muzzle at p^ 6'5 ; interorbital 

 breadth 15'3 ; intertemporal breadth 14; palatal length 52; 

 palatine foramina 9'3 ; posterior palatine vacuities 75 ; front 

 of canine to back of w^ 35, three anterior molariform teeth 10*5 ; 

 transverse diameter of m^ 2'6. 



IJah. as above. 



Ti/pe. Adult male. B.M. no. 20. 7. 26. 34. Original 

 nuniber 21. Collected February 1920. 



This mountain bandicoot is a very striking and interesting 

 animal, widely different from any previously known form. 

 It is at once recog*nizable by its crisp but not spinous fur and 

 its extraordinarily long slender muzzle. I have mucii pleasure 

 in connecting with it the name of the Pratt brothers, whose 

 expedition has resulted in its discovery. 



XLVIII. — A remarkable new Genus of Lamellicorn Beetles. 

 By Gilbert J. Arrow, F.Z.S., F.E.S. 



(Publiskecl by permission of the Trustees of the British Museum.) 



The exceedingly remarkable little beetle here described was 

 found in Si'ptembcr 1897 by the French missionary. Father 

 Cardon, at Oliota Nagpore, in Bengal, and has latuly been 

 sent to me for investigation by M. iiene Oberthiir. It was 

 probably found in a termite nest, the curious termitophilous 

 Choilopisthes fulvus^ Westw., having been taken at the same 

 time. While exhibiting certain characteristics of both the 

 Coprina3 and Aphodiinai, it is impossible to refer it to either, 

 and it appears inevitable to regard it as the type of a new 

 subfamily (to be called Aphodiocoprinse). Although its 

 general conformation and especially the widely se])arat('d 

 middle coxse appear to indicate the Coprinse, the fact that 

 the interval between the coxiB is formed l)y the mesosternuni 

 and not the metasternum, the double spurs to the hind tibia, 

 the corneous mandibles and strange moulli-structure exclude 

 it from that group. The mouth-struclure, as well as the 

 distant middle coxa?, equally excludes it from the Aphodiina.'. 



